10 Worst Marvel Superhero Costumes Of All Time

10. Jack Of Hearts

Jack of Hearts, real name Jonathan Hart - “Jack” is a nickname - was created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen. He is the son of an Earth scientist and an alien woman from the planet Contraxia. Jack was doused by his father’s “Zero Fluid” and gained superpowers that he has never fully been in control of. When his father was killed, he built a containment suit from pieces of equipment in his dad's lab and based on his old man's love for playing cards - and began calling himself Jack of Hearts.

It is highly possible that this was a case where the writer either had the name “Jack of Hearts” or the artist had a visual in his head and they built a story around that. Jack has the fairly generic powers of strength, flight and concussive blasts, but there is nothing in his powers or origin that screams “playing card” other than his father’s apparent love for them.

It’s also very hard to understand how this outfit can be a containment suit when the face and the hands are completely exposed. Could DC’s The Human Bomb or Negative Man get away with having even an inch of their flesh exposed? Of course not! They’d kill everyone within miles. Maybe Jack should have worried less about the hearts on his boots and more about holding in his deadly energy.